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Invoke Despair

First printed in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (2022)

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Invoke Despair

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Although officials said it was a sewer failure, the people whispered that it was a warning of night's reach.

Illustrated by
Olivier Bernard

Legality

Rulings (3)

  • The target opponent doesn't choose whether to sacrifice a creature or not, although they do choose which creature they control to sacrifice.
  • When you repeat the process, you don't choose a new player. The same player sacrifices each of the three permanents, if able.
  • You repeat the process for an enchantment and a planeswalker whether the target opponent was able to sacrifice a creature or not.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Invoke Despair in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO), Premier Draft 58.9% +3.3 +4.7 7533
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO), Sealed 58.4% +4.1 +3.9 743
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Staple

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Pioneer In 66 of 609 decks (10.8%), most in Golgari Midrange

Share of decks
10.8%
▼ 7.5 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-07: 18.9% 2026-08-14: 16.6% 2026-08-21: 8.0% 2026-08-28: 15.9% 2026-09-04: 21.5% 2026-09-11: 16.9% 2026-09-18: 18.2% 2026-09-25: 16.7% 2026-10-02: 14.2% 2026-10-09: 10.5% 2026-10-16: 7.4% 2026-10-23: 11.8%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
66
3 main, 65 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.7
in the main deck
Win rate
57%
14 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Golgari Midrange 9.5% 91%
UB (unclassified) 6.7% 24%
BG (unclassified) 2.5% 13%
UBRG (unclassified) 0.7% 25%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Fatal Push100%4.0
Thoughtseize100%3.8

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Golgari Midrange
Arianne in Pioneer Challenge 32
7-2
78%
Golgari Midrange
jaximus5 in Pioneer Challenge 16
6-2
75%
Golgari Midrange
SuperCow12653 in Pioneer Challenge 16
6-2
75%
Golgari Midrange
Arianne in Pioneer Challenge 32
6-2
75%
Golgari Midrange
peter780108 in Pioneer Challenge 16
5-2
71%
Golgari Midrange
digdude13 in Pioneer Challenge 16
5-2
71%
Golgari Midrange
tchuco in Pioneer Challenge 32
5-2
71%
Golgari Midrange
SuperCow12653 in Pioneer Challenge 32
4-2
67%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Golgari Midrange
SuperCow12653,
3 side #18
3-3
Golgari Midrange
peter780108,
2 side #19
3-3
Golgari Midrange
LucasG1ggs,
2 side #24
3-3
Golgari Midrange
Misplacedginger,
2 side #32
2-2
Golgari Midrange
zuranthus,
2 side #12
4-2
Golgari Midrange
SuperCow12653,
3 side #14
4-2
Golgari Midrange
Arianne,
2 side #15
4-2
Golgari Midrange
peter780108,
2 side #27
3-3

Commander In 1 of 6159 decks (0.0%), most in Baron Helmut Zemo

Share of decks
0.0%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-21: 0.2% 2026-08-28: 0.0% 2026-09-04: 0.0% 2026-09-11: 0.0% 2026-09-18: 0.0% 2026-09-25: 0.0% 2026-10-02: 0.0% 2026-10-09: 0.0% 2026-10-16: 0.1% 2026-10-23: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
1
1 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Baron Helmut Zemo 0.1% 25%

Played together with

Not enough decks yet.

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Baron Helmut Zemo
Clint Grisham,
1 main #44
0-4